Age Quote by Samuel Johnson

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

— Samuel Johnson

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

— Mason Cooley

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society,…

— Margery Sharp

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

— C. S. Lewis

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It…

— W. H. Auden

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

— Anna Katharine Green

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

— Seneca the Younger

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

— J. A. Spender

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

“There is much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns.”

— Adam Bucko

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes…

— Chief Seattle